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• Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

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  Thinking, People, Evil

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• It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

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  Marriage, People, Life And Death

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.

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  Men, Animal, Political

  "A Treasury of English Aphorisms". Book by Logan Pearsall Smith, Introduction, p.49, 1943.

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• All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

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  Machines, Golden, Pennies

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Together

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• A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

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  Talent, Mediocre, Tombs

  'Afterthoughts' (1931) 'Art and Letters'

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• The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

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  Vocabulary, Grapes, Sour

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• How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

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  Art, Soul, Gallery

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1950). “A Portrait of Logan Pearsall Smith: Drawn from His Letters and Diaries, and Introduced by John Russell”

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• The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

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  World, Reputation, Unkind

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

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  Real, Elderly, Lasts

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

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  Mirrors, Self, People

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.

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  Wind, Forever, Soul

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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• A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.

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  Doors, Perfect, Perfection

  1931 Afterthoughts, 'Other People'.

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• I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.

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  Stars, Hate, Fascination

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• If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

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  Marriage, Husband, Wife

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• When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

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  Mean, Thinking, Done

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• What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

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  Nature, Phrases, Pursuit

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• It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

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  Brain, Cracks, Creeps

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• The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.

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  Views, Quality, Adjectives

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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• We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.

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  Soul, Dew, Should

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

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  People, Gossip, Awful

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

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• One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

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  Vanity, Gossip, Behind My Back

  Logan Pearsall Smith, Edwin Tribble (1984). “A chime of words: the letters of Logan Pearsall Smith”

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• Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

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  People, World, Charming

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave

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  Fashion, Slave

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

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  Thinking, Desire, Consumerism

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